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What is the great-grandmother longing for, looking out of the window of a high-rise building? She left her home forever, somewhere in the blooming Polissia. The catastrophe took away not only her home, but also the life of a loved one - like so many other lives. She gathers herbs that smell like her native land and cherishes the memories she will share with her great-granddaughter. The girl is as gifted as her fellow countrywoman from the Chornobyl zone, a representative of naïve painting, Maria Prymachenko, whose paintings were once admired by Picasso. The artist, unlike the heroine's grandmother, remained in an abandoned village near the reactor until the end of her life.

The Portal's publication is a "first aid book" for parents and teachers.

What is the connection with the family? How does it feel to leave home and go into the unknown? How were people from the Chornobyl zone perceived? Who are the liquidators? What do you know about the personality and work of the artist Mariia Prymachenko? You will find the answers in this edition-«portal».

The uniqueness of the Portal books lies in a special system that helps adults find the right words to discuss psychological issues with children and to understand the historical context more deeply. For each printed edition, a team of educators, psychologists, and historians has developed detailed backgrounder with QR codes and game bookmarks containing

• historical backgrounds - information about the historical period from expert historians;
psychological support - comments from professional psychologists and recommendations for discussing important points and difficult issues
• questions to the text - a system of questions that will help you to work through the text meaningfully and deeply with your child.

The Portal's books are created in a series that form a holistic historical picture for children. There are many tragic pages in world and Ukrainian history that cannot be ignored. But it is difficult to talk about them with children without special training. You need professional support, an understanding of how to conduct a conversation so as not to cause trauma, and answers to questions that the child will have many. This is exactly what the Life Goes On series helps parents and teachers to do.

The books in this series raise the topics of the Holocaust, emigration, post-traumatic stress disorder, eviction from one's own home as a result of the Chernobyl tragedy, and others. Through fiction, the writers manage to convey horrors by depicting the relevant atmosphere, through the plot and the experiences and dialogues of the characters, rather than directly describing them. The work of psychologists with the texts of this particular series is the most delicate of all the Portal's, as it is important to weigh every word, every shade of meaning, so as not to hurt or traumatise the children's psyche.

Today, in addition to Flowers by the Fourth, this series has released We Live on the Edge of a Volcano and Apples of War by Nadiya Gerbish. The series will be gradually updated with new books."

The Portal's publication is an interesting storytelling based on a scientifically verified historical background. Your children will become interested in the history and culture of Ukraine and the world without rote learning - in adventures and fascinating stories!